MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kanij mean?
Kanij represents Persian kanīz, written کنیز, a young female servant or attendant. The word was adopted into Urdu and also occurs as an element in longer personal names.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कनीज़
Conventional spelling
Arabic
کنیز
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कनीज
18,202 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kanij in Indian usage
18,202 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling कनीज.
Mostly recorded for girls (98.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 17,894 records (98.3%).
- Recorded as male: 308 records (1.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 113 |
| 1930s | 705 |
| 1940s | 1,696 |
| 1950s | 2,709 |
| 1960s | 3,460 |
| 1970s | 3,159 |
| 1980s | 3,795 |
| 1990s | 2,565 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 13,635 |
| Bihar | 1,909 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,407 |
| Rajasthan | 522 |
| Jharkhand | 433 |
| Uttarakhand | 149 |
| Maharashtra | 147 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001